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Dr. Arnold Luterman (second from right), shown with his colleagues, accepts the resolution to name the burn center in his honor at the Board of Trustees’ meeting on Dec. 6, 2013.

The University of South Alabama’s Board of Trustees approved a resolution to name the USA Medical Center’s regional burn center in honor of Dr. Arnold Luterman, the Ripps-Meisler professor of surgery at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine and former head of the burn center at the USA Medical Center.

Dr. Luterman recently retired from the university after more than 30 years of service. He is a nationally known burn care expert who has played a vital role in the care of burn victims in our region.

The burn center will now be known as the Arnold Luterman Regional Burn Center.